Summary of the Day ✨ 30 May (30/05)
Former President Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president convicted of a crime in New York, while NASA’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from Kennedy Space Center, marking the first crewed American spacecraft in over a decade. Internationally, Nigeria banned same-sex marriage, former Liberian president Charles Taylor received a 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, and nations adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions to restrict the use of controversial weapons.
Historical Events 📜
- 2024: Donald Trump is convicted of falsifying business records in his New York trial, the first time a former President of the United States has been found guilty in a criminal case.
- 2020: The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011 and the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
- 2013: Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
- 2012: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2008: Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
- 2008: TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and crashes, killing five people.
- 2003: Depayin massacre: At least 70 people associated with the National League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but is arrested soon afterwards.
- 1999: 53 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.
- 1998: The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
- 1998: Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
- 1990: Croatian Parliament is constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as the National Day of Croatia.
- 1989: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high “Goddess of Democracy” statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
- 1982: Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
- 1979: Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
- 1975: European Space Agency is established.
Famous Births 👶
- 2002: Natty, Thai singer based in South Korea
- 2000: Jared S. Gilmore, American actor
- 1999: Eddie Nketiah, English footballer
- 1999: Guanyu Zhou, Chinese race car driver
- 1997: Jung Eun-bi, South Korean singer and actress
- 1997: Charlie Hall, American actor
- 1997: Jake Short, American actor
- 1996: Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player
- 1994: Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992: Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
- 1992: Danielle Harold, English actress
- 1992: Jeremy Lamb, American basketball player
- 1991: Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
- 1990: Im Yoon-ah, South Korean singer and actress
- 1990: Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, French biochemist and endocrinologist (born 1926)
- 2025: Valerie Mahaffey, American actress (born 1953)
- 2025: Loretta Swit, American actress and singer (born 1937)
- 2025: John E. Thrasher, American politician (born 1943)
- 2024: Geneviève de Galard, French nurse (born 1925)
- 2024: Drew Gordon, American professional basketball player (born 1990)
- 2021: Jason Dupasquier, Swiss motorcycle road racer (born 2001)
- 2020: Michael Angelis, British actor (born 1944)
- 2019: Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
- 2019: Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)
- 2016: Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
- 2016: Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1950)
- 2015: Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (born 1969)
- 2015: Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (born 1957)
- 2015: L. Tom Perry, American religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1922)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)
- Canary Islands Day (Spain)
- Christian feast day:
Ferdinand III of Castile - Christian feast day:
Isaac of Dalmatia - Christian feast day:
Joan of Arc - Christian feast day:
Joseph Marello - Christian feast day:
May 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
- Kaamatan, harvest festival in the state of Sabah and the federal territory of Labuan (Malaysia)
- Lod Massacre Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico)
- Mother’s Day (Nicaragua)
- Statehood Day (Croatia)